A new paper by Meissner et al. has reported important, long-term data on fear of recurrence and biochemical progression of prostate cancer among a large cohort of German patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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Nearly 3 years ago now, we first mentioned a surgical technique known as “Retzius-sparing” radical prostatectomy on this web site. … READ MORE …
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Does radical prostatectomy (with or without external beam radiation therapy) improve prostate-cancer specific survival by comparison with primary radiation treatment and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) among patients initially diagnosed with locally advanced (T3) prostate cancer? … READ MORE …
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Some data presented a few weeks ago at the annual meeting of the European Association for Urology appear to have surprised not only the study’s authors, but pretty much everyone else as well. … READ MORE …
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It will hardly come as a surprise to most prostate cancer support group leaders and other prostate cancer advocates that there is a strong association between patient age and risk for side effects of radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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As we have seen previously (see this link), among men with Gleason 9 or 10 disease, brachy boost therapy (BBT) provided better oncological outcomes compared to either radical prostatectomy (RP) alone or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) alone. … READ MORE …
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According to a recently reported study in the journal European Urology, men who received first-line surgery or radiation therapy for non-metastatic prostate cancer were significantly more likely to have taken an antidepressant 5 years later than comparable men who didn’t get such treatment. … READ MORE …
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Back in January this year we commented on a technique known as Retzius-sparing radical prostatectomy, which — according to its advocates — is said to facilitate recovery of erectile function post-surgery. … READ MORE …
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A critical question for men with favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer (based primarily on a Gleason score of 3 + 4 = 7) can often be, “How safe would it be for me to go on active surveillance for a while after initial diagnosis?” … READ MORE …
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Two retrospective studies were published in the last week, and they had some similar findings, but some dissimilar things to say about which treatment is best for high-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the British Journal of Cancer has reported on patient-reported functional outcomes following robot-assisted laparoscopic (RALP), non-robot-assisted laparoscopic (LRP), and open (ORP) forms of radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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The question between different types of physician as to whether radiation therapy or surgery is “better” for the first-line, curative treatment of localized prostate cancer has now been debated (over and over) for more than 40 years. … READ MORE …
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A new article in the upcoming December issue of the Journal of Urology has shown that, for men with higher risk prostate cancers, tumors found in the transition zone of the prostate are less “risky” than the same types of cancer when they occur in the peripheral and central zones. … READ MORE …
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The re-treatment of patients with recurrent prostate cancer after initial, first-line treatment for what was initially diagnosed as localized disease can be complicated. Success (i.e., effective re-treatment with curative intent) in the re-treatment of such patients is often dependent on the ability to identify exactly where recurrence has occurred. … READ MORE …
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